Lots of talk about how many members of govt went to fee paying schools, so who on here is prepared to MTFU to having had their education paid for?
I will: local independent school for secondary education up to GCE.
Why: Local ed authority back in the time wanted more able pupils to attend the less able schools, something that my parents were not prepared to put up with.
Class: Father, from the bogs (literally) left school at 14, 2 GCE's, no higher education, started working in a mental asylum back in NI, before coming across to England, spending some time in the prison service, training as an RMN, then eventually as an SRN/RGN. By the time I was off to secondary he was a charge nurse. He was a shop steward in the RCN and I can remember the pay campaign of the late 1970's (Don't pay nurses peanuts I think it was called), so wasn't on the comparable wages that a charge nurse would earn in todays econmic climate.
Mum, primary school classroom teacher, degree educated.
So not a massive income, not a priveledged family, no bursary/scholarship as the school didn't do them. I was last of 4 kids that mky parents paid for to go to this school, over 12 years, so we didn't do holidays during that time (or any luxuries really). At one point my two older brothers & sister were at the school at the same time, so my parents had three lots of school fees to pay for one year.
So my education, and the education of my siblings was hardly a class/priveledge thing, just a lot of scrimping and saving during that time. Luxuries I wanted were bought by myself from my weekend job that I had from the age of 14.
Oddly enough I hated the school, but would consider it an option when MFL junior reaches the appropriate age in place of local secondaries.
